Last-block.



No. 783,364. PATENTED FEB. 21, 1905.

J. T. BROWN.

LAST BLOCK.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 20, 1902.

.jaoeza/r UNITED STATES PatentedFebruary 21, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN T. BROVVN, OF MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO UNITED LAST COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF. MAINE.

LAST-BLOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,364, dated February 21, 1905.

Application filed October 20 1902. Serial No. 127,962.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN T. BROWN, of Marblehead, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Last-Blocks, of which the following is 'a specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in last-blocks; and it consists in the novel features of construction and relative arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described in the specification, clearly illustrated in the drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming a part of this application, in which like characters indicate like parts wherever they occur.

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing alastblock constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the last-block shown in Fig. 1.

sawing the block.

1 represents a last-block, here shown as rough-turned, although it might be split or formed in any other desired way.

2 represents a squared toe end formed by 3 represents a squared heel end of the block, the whole or part of which is to serve as the abutting face of the last part of a-finished last.

4 represents holes bored in the rough-turned block at right angles to the squared face or end 3 to serve as means for engagement with the dog of a last-turning lathe.

These holes may also be employed to receive hinge members and for holding the block and last part in turning and in subsequent operations prior to the assembling of the two parts of the last together by means of the hinge. the holes 4 any desired means may be adopted without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, which includes a last-block formed withaface prior to turning, which face is to have a useful function in the last, and I desire to claim said last-block in the broadest possible legal manner.

Having thus explained the nature of my invention and describeda way of constructing and using same, though without attempting Instead of 2. As a new article of manufacture, a lastblock formed with a squared end which is to serve as an abutting face in the finished last, said block also having a squared toe portion.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JONATHAN T. BROWN.

Witnesses:

H. L. ROBBINS, R. BULLOCK. 

